Museum of the Riverina
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The Museum of the Riverina is a local history museum in
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is the region in south-western New South Wales in which Wagga Wagga is located. The museum was established by Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society in 1967 (Morris, p. 241) in premises near the Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens
on Lord Baden Powell Drive.
In the late 1990s,
Tichborne case
.
The museum provides a regional outreach service to 38 Riverina museums.
Sporting Hall of Fame
The following sportspeople have been inducted into the museum's Sporting Hall of Fame:[1]
- Bain, Phillip - target shooting
- Bajer, Roger - soccer
- Baverstock (née Frauenfelder), Brooke - softball
- Bradley, Melanie - athletics
- Bragg, Thomas - indoor bias bowls
- Breasley, Scobie - jockey
- Brentnall, Greg - rugby league
- Brwn, Cameron Wallace - athletics
- Byrne, Rod - touch football
- Carey, Wayne - Australian rules football
- Carruthers, Simon - squash
- Carter, Megan - hockey
- Chisholm Lachlan - athletics
- Chisholm (née Taylor), Megan - karate
- Collingwood, Josh - cycling
- Commens, Adam - hockey
- Condron, Kevin - motorcycling
- Cooke, Ken - rifle shooting
- Crowe, Graham - shooting
- Daniher, Terry - Australian rules football
- Dawson, Tom - cycling
- Doyle, Tim - kayaking
- Drummond, Cheryl - carriage driving
- Dwyer, Patrick- athletics
- Eisenhauer, Peter - touch football, rugby league
- Elkington, Steve - golf
- Ellwood, Beresford - rugby union
- Finch, Andrew - shooting
- Fletcher, Anthony - rugby league refereeing
- Foster (née Catton), Brenda - tennis
- Gooden (née Wheeler), Amanda - softball
- Haberl (née Campbell), Andrea - table tennis
- Hadkins, Wayne - aero-modelling
- Hann, Quinten - snooker
- Hawick, Greg - rugby league
- Henderson, Kate - diving
- Henderson, Nick - rugby union
- Hetherington, Morris - golf
- Horne (née Robinson), Kim - softball
- Housden, Robert - kayaking
- House, Alyisha - athletics - Junior Sporting Hall of Fame
- Hubbard, Greg - basketball
- Humbert, Ashley - cycling
- Jenkyn, Diane - dressage
- Jones, Allison - orienteering
- Kahlefeldt, Brad - triathlon
- Kelly, Paul - Australian rules football
- Kingston, Geoff - Australian rules football
- Langford, John - rugby union
- Lawson, Geoff - cricket
- Lenehan, James - rugby union
- Longmore, Anna & Rooke, Matthew - dancesport
- Macken, Georgina - orienteering
- Martin, Steve - rugby league
- McDonald, Terry - motorcycling
- McKee, Joyce - lawn bowls
- McKinnon, Bruce - volleyball
- McLay, Peter - cricket
- McLennan, Graeme - hockey and indoor hockey
- McMahon, Terry - touch football
- McMullen, Ken - rugby union
- Miller, Warren - swimming, aquathon and modern pentathlon
- Moffat, Richard - cycling
- Mohr, Wilbur (Bill) - Australian rules football
- Mooney, Cameron - Australian rules football
- Mortimer, Chris - rugby league
- Mortimer, Steve - rugby league
- Murphy, Jacqueline - netball
- Nix, Bernard - touch football
- O'Neill, Andrew - athletics
- Parker, Holly - equestrian
- Paul, Ann - hockey
- Pieper, Gerald - Australian rules football
- Pike, Stephen - referee touch football
- Puckett (née Bennett), Robyn - golf
- Richards, Lloyd - motorcycling
- Richardson, Norma - lawn bowls
- Robertson, Bill - cycling
- Robertson, Bob - cycling
- Roche, Tony - tennis
- Rooke, Barney - shooting
- Rooke, Matthew & Longmore, Anna - dancesport
- Schuster (née Rooke), Maree - clay target shooting
- Scott, Nola - c
- Shipard, Sally - soccer, cricket
- Slater, Michael - cricket
- SMITH, Rex Daniel - touch football
- Sterling, Peter- rugby league
- Stormonth, Michael - dirt track/speedway
- Summons, Arthur - rugby union, rugby league
- Sunderland, Bob - motorcycle racing
- Sutherland, Ben - gymnastics
- Taylor, Col - aero-modelling
- Taylor, Mark - cricket
- Tennant, Raeleigh - triathlon
- Thomas, Gilbert 'Tig' - sailing
- Tonkin, Arthur - rugby union
- Tutty, Bruce - shooting - pistol
- Twitt, Melanie - hockey
- Weissel, Eric - rugby league
- Williams, Garry - sailing
- Williams, Gregory - sailing
- Young, Jason Carl - cricket
See also
References
- ^ wagga.nsw.gov.au. "Inductees". Sporting Hallf of Fame. Museum of the Riverina. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- Morris, S (1999). Wagga Wagga, a history. Bobby Graham Publishers, Wagga Wagga. ISBN 1-875247-12-2